Barcelona
FC Barcelona marked the New Year with the announcement that they’d cracked the 50 million fan barrier on Facebook. [http://www.fcbarcelona.com/club/barca-2-0/detail/article/50-million-of-us-on-facebook] As you’d expect the news was delivered with much fanfare and picked up by media outlets the world over but
Premier League
New Year’s resolutions are all well and good at ten-to-midnight on New Year’s Eve, but once sobriety begins to kick in they never seem like such a great idea. This year rather than come up with a host of promises to ourselves that we’re never going to
Barclays Premier League
Snapchat – the temporary photo-sharing service launched in 2011 – has just snapped up (sorry) its first Premier League club. Southampton FC announced late this afternoon that they’d launched their profile [http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/saints-on-snapchat-1240475.aspx], and encouraged fans to join them. The club are promising “behind-the-scenes
Newcastle United
National newspapers received a nasty shock this week when they were notified of Newcastle United’s intention to begin charging journalists for access to the team’s playing staff. According to this morning’s edition of the Journal [http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-reveal-plan-make-6394831] the club are
adidas
adidas have started their social media campaign for the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup with the launch of the @brazuca handle, an account from their new ball created especially for the competition. The sports company have promised the account will offer “an alternative take on the game” in their press
Everton
Christmas is all about giving, or so I’m told, and that’s just what clubs up and down the country are doing as they launch their online advent calendars for 2013. The idea of rewarding supporters from the first day of the festive season onward with new or interesting
Fulham
As pointed out by alt-3 Sports, thanks to the sacking of Martin Jol following Fulham’s 3-0 defeat to West Ham yesterday Twitter now has its second ever user who’s also manager of a Premier League club. Rene Meulensteen has taken over first team duties @FulhamFC making him the
NCJ Media
After recent events at Newcastle United [http://prattleblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/banning-journalists-what-does-it-achieve/] , Nottingham Forest [http://www.nottinghampost.com/Nottingham-Forest-formally-limit-media-access/story-19699666-detail/story.html] and Port Vale [http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Port-Vale-press-ban-Sentinel-continue-serve-fans/story-20000377-detail/story.html] you could be forgiven for thinking football clubs have lost the plot. For a
Mike Ashley
This past weekend has brought news of football journalists finding themselves barred from doing their job. Why? For doing their job. On Sunday after Newcastle’s defeat to Sunderland journalists from three local newspapers were stopped from asking questions of manager Alan Pardew. The ban came about after coverage of
Paddy Power
When Paddy Power’s marketing team attack any subject controversy is never too far away. The announcement that they’d teamed up with leading gay rights charity Stonewall for an anti-homophobia campaign was no different. According to Paddy Power’s websiteRight Behind Gay Footballers [http://blog.paddypower.com/2013/09/
Premier League
Is popularity the best measure of success? Maybe in some cases, but in the world of social media it’s fraught with problems. Following on from my last blog [http://prattleblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/how-to-measure-the-quality-of-a-clubs-social-media-output/] , I decided to look at the follower numbers of Premier League clubs in
measurement
Last night I stumbled into a Twitter conversation involving Sean Walsh [https://twitter.com/walshybhoy], Steven Cole [https://twitter.com/schtevey], Daniel Maurin [https://twitter.com/D_Maurin]andTom Chaplin [https://twitter.com/MrTomChaplin], the genesis of which wasthis blog post [http://www.socialpundit.co.uk/blog/english-premier-league-clubs-on-social-media-growing-7-every-month/] by Social